Rand Paul

The message that sent to North Korea and the message that sent to Iran was, you know what? If you get rid of your nuclear weapons, you may well be toppled by the West.

We should never shy away from saying and representing and being the symbol of freedom and liberty around the world, and justice.

There have been many voices saying it really needs to be the preeminent part of our foreign policy to vanquish those human rights abusers.

I think it is important that you project to them that you are open-minded on these things because you have had--

I think it is an equation where Israel does hold most of the cards and most of the power.

I think your job will be to report that to the President and to let him know the different viewpoints within Israel.

I would say that we ought to account for and think about what 5,400 new settlements in the West Bank do to the possibility of peace.

I do not put myself out as an expert or someone who has an answer to Middle East peace.

I think sometimes there is a presumption that America knows best, is in charge of everything, and that we are going to tell everybody the way things are going to be.

Will we think to ourselves long and hard that if we do move our Embassy there and a thousand Israeli soldiers die because of it... will it have been something that was worth our while?

I do not think we should be so presumptuous as that we are going to dictate the role.

I think it is worrisome, some of the ties to foreign governments, because that was a big complaint about many of us with Hillary Clinton and her ties and the monies she received from foreign governments.

You want to have a diplomat in charge of diplomacy. You don't want a bomb thrower.

Exactly, and that's another problem we're going to look into as well.

Right. Some of the published material also said that Adrenaclick was not therapeutically equivalent to EpiPen.

I think what's happening is he's a much bigger purchaser than you.

Thank you. That reminds me of one more question for Philip.

We're going to conclude, but I talked to Courtney earlier.

We want to find the solution. If any of you are willing to continue to work with our office--several bills were mentioned.

I'm a big believer in trying to figure out the problem. You don't just get angry and put price controls on.

Maybe we should stop that--stop allowing a patent for that, because there is some discussion--like I remember in ophthalmology, some guy patented the frown incision.

It's opaque. There isn't a transparency, and some it is this idea of proprietary knowledge.

I guess what we have to look at is in the mission that the FDA is given--are they going in and--have we increased inspections that are shutting down plants because of a problem, or are we doing it just because of an increased zealousness…

That was a reaction to the contaminated steroid injections that happened at the company--what, up in Massachusetts or something?

I kind of wanted to broaden the debate beyond EpiPen.